Author Archives: Bill Hirschman
Silver Palm Awards announced today
The third annual Silver Palm Awards were announced today, recognizing outstanding work during the season that just ended in shows presented by members of the South Florida Theatre League. The 16 awards include the first husband and wife duo, Avi …
Reminder
Flashlight Tales is a fund-raiser Tuesday for The Naked Stage’s The 24-Hour Theater Project. It’s an open mic opportunity to tell your favorite five-minute ghost story or scary tale not to mention enjoy music and a cash bar. The best …
Raising a Roof
Zoetic Theatre continues its fund-raising efforts 7 p.m. Monday with a staged reading of 37 Postcards, a comedy by Zoetic co-founder Michael McKeever. The play about family dysfunction has been performed around the country and Germany. The stage has been …
“Pandemonium” makes a beautiful noise at Arsht Center
If you close your eyes, the music wafting from the Arsht Center stage occasionally sounds as if an orchestra of oboes and trumpets is playing. But for most of two hours, Pandemonium delivers a glorious symphony of banging, slapping, toots, …
Politics and Poker
Miami-Dade’s County Commission proposed county budget cuts $2.3 million of support for the grants programs of the Department of Cultural Affairs. If enacted, this would reduce grants by about 25% to more than 400 cultural organizations. Combined with last year’s …
Scary Storytelling
Antonio Amadeo, Katherine Paul Amadeo and their friend John Manzelli founded The Naked Stage three years ago years ago, using a tiny corner of Barry University as their stage. Now they’ve slated Flashlight Tales, an unusual fundraiser Sept. 21 benefiting …
Family Affair
Some actors are greeted with applause when they make their big entrance on opening night, but Antonio Amadeo is likely the first person to hit the boards to the sound of a resounding ‘Daddy!’ Six-year-old Lara was sitting in the …
Amid the cliches, “bare” offers a breakout performance
The Carbonell Award limits eligibility to shows that run a minimum number of performances so the judges can see it. That’s the only thing keeping dynamic Marissa Rosen from nabbing a best supporting actress nomination for her turn in an …
Mosaic scores with manic movie madness
In the darkness, an announcer intones in movie-trailer voice, full of cultural import and dire portent: ‘From Akira Kurosawa and Walt Disney comes . . .’ A spotlight hits a bearded man wearing full Snow White regalia. Then the light …
Injured Thursday in car accident, actor to go on tonight in Mosaic Theatre’s “Hollywood”
The clich’ of ‘the show must go on’ has taken on a very visceral meaning for South Florida actor Erik Fabregat. Fabregat was injured in a car accident in Plantation shortly after leaving Thursday night’s preview of Mosaic Theatre’s Completely …
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